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{{Infobox website
| name = Dalitstan.org
| logo = Dalitstan-logo.JPG
| logocaption =
| url = {{URL|dalitstan.org}}
| commercial = No
| type = [[Dalit]] [[advocacy]]
| registration =
| language = [[English language|English]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| launch_date = 1999
| current_status = Offline
}}
'''Dalitstan.org''' was a [[Dalit]] [[Advocacy group|advocacy]] website active until mid-2006,<ref name="Anand2011">{{cite book | author=Dibyesh Anand | title=Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbpfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT34 | date=15 October 2011 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-0-230-36263-5 | pages=34–}}</ref> one of 18 websites that were blocked by the Indian government following the [[11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings]].<ref name=indiatimes>{{cite news | url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-07-19/india/27816956_1_govt-blocks-check-terror-websites| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527095335/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-07-19/india/27816956_1_govt-blocks-check-terror-websites| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2013-05-27| newspaper = [[The Times of India]]| title = Govt blocks 18 sites to check hate messages | date = 2006-07-19 }}</ref>

The website claimed to be run by '''Dalitstan''', a "Human Rights Organization working for the Upliftment of Dalits, the [[Untouchability|Untouchables]] of India".<ref>{{cite book | author1=Anjana Narayan | author2=Bandana Purkayastha | title=Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experiences | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cDF7Ow_FJ8kC&pg=PA270 | year=2009 | publisher=Kumarian Press | isbn=978-1-56549-270-7 | pages=270–}}</ref> Note that [[-stan]] is a [[suffix]] for "place of"<ref name="About.com">{{cite web|last=Johnson |first=Bridget |title='Stan Countries – What the Suffix 'Stan' Means |publisher=[[About.com]] |url=http://worldnews.about.com/od/centralandeastasia/f/stans.htm |accessdate=October 9, 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6FVca0q9H?url=http://worldnews.about.com/od/centralandeastasia/f/stans.htm |archivedate=2013-03-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> or "country",<ref name ="Etymonline">{{cite web|url = http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-stan|title = -stan|first = Douglas|last = Harper|authorlink = Douglas Harper|publisher = [[Online Etymology Dictionary]]|accessdate = January 18, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101195443/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-stan|archivedate=2014-01-01|url-status=live}}</ref> appearing in many [[place names]] throughout [[Central Asia|Central]] and [[South Asia]]. Dalitstan would mean "place or country of the [[Dalits]]".

==Claims and counter-claims==
The website claimed that the Dalits were the original people of India who created the [[Harappan civilization]], and described the [[Brahmin]]s as the descendants of the [[Indo-Aryan migration debate|Aryan invaders]] who enslaved them.<ref>{{cite book | author=Judith E. Walsh | title=A Brief History of India | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iekF9X3OwwMC&pg=PA15 | date=1 January 2006 | publisher=Infobase Publishing | isbn=978-1-4381-0825-4 | pages=15–}}</ref>

Dibyesh Anand of the [[University of Westminster]] described Dalitstan.org as a Dalit nationalist group that also acted as a forum for anti-India Christian and Muslim advocacy.<ref name=Anand>{{cite book|last=Anand|first=Dibyesh|title=Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear|year=2011|publisher=Palgrave-Macmillan|isbn=978-0230603851|pages=56–59}}</ref>

==Blocked by the Indian government==
Dalitistan.org was among the 18 websites that were blocked in India by the Ministry of Telecommunications of the Government in July 2006, in a bid to check terror and hate messages on the Internet following the [[11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings]].<ref name=indiatimes />

==History of domain==
The website was launched in 1999, with the domain registered by Helen Heklund, with an address in [[Granbury, Texas]]. The website was taken down sometime after May 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Archived Results from Jan 01, 1996 - latest for dalitstan.org |url=http://dalitstan.org/ |work=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510134217/http://www.dalitstan.org/ |archivedate=2006-05-10 }}</ref> The domain registration lapsed, and was subsequently purchased by an unrelated party.

==See also==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
*[[Dalit nationalism]]
*[[-stan]] ([[suffix]] for "place of" or "country")
*[[List of Dalits]]
*[[Indo-Iranians]]
*[[Indigenous Aryans]]
*[[Indo-Aryan migration theory]]
*[[Historiography and nationalism]]
*[[Saffronization]]
*[[NCERT controversy]]
*[[Pakistani textbooks controversy]]
*[[Anti-Brahminism]]
*[[Anti-Hindi agitations]]
*[[History of the Indian caste system]]
*[[Caste system]]
*[[Varna (Hinduism)]]
*[[Indigenous peoples]]
*[[Indigenous archaeology]]
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060510134217/http://www.dalitstan.org/ Dalistan.org] (archived copy from 2006)

{{Social issues in India}}

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[[Category:Dalit politics]]
[[Category:Indian political websites]]
[[Category:Pseudohistory]]
[[Category:Anti-Brahminism]]

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